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Cabro-rehydrate?
With so many people, including close friends and relatives of mine, pursuing low-carb or no-carb diets, I thought the subject deserved a little research. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has published a number of studies on high-fat, high-protein and low-carbohydrate diets. There recommendation for long-term health and weight loss is a diverse vegetarian diet.
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No seriously. Even after detailed descriptions of foul-smelling excretions, pounding headaches due to lack of nutrition, and the humiliating threat of procuring a stool sample for my doctor, these women still seemed to envy me. Why? Because I was losing weight. I was skinny. I could cut glass with my hip bone. I had the great good fortune to suffer from a disease with a desirable physical consequence. Because, it seems, ninety-nine out of a hundred women you meet want desperately to be thinner.
I suppose it's not completely surprising that there's a rush to drop weight. After all, we're told constantly that America is in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Everywhere you look, there is a television show, a commercial, a magazine article telling you that losing weight will prolong your life and promote good health. Most of these messages are directed at people who are dangerously obese. However, the women who expressed their envy at my condition were by and large healthy and active. They were at no great risk of any complications from their weight. Indeed, some of them were downright slender. Yet they all wanted to be thinner.
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